On 1 July 2010 23:07, Khem Caigan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Jake Stratton-Kent doth schreibble :
>>
>> Point taken re the Kabbalistic Ishim&c, but see Qlipoth thread for
>> non-equivalence of Kabbalah (Jewish) and Qabalah (generic).
>
> My teachers ( R.s Aryeh Kaplan and Lionel Ziprin,
> and Harry Smith) went to some lengths to point out
> the differences ( and congruences ) between the
> various schools, both Jewish and Gentile.
>
> Cors in Manu Domine,
my point was that in a discussion of Western occultism, the finer
points of historical Kabbalah proper might not be as relevant as the
practices of contemporary NY witches. I thought my point was clear
enough but allow me to restate: for various reasons contemporary
Western Occultism has no well developed eschatology or hierarchy of
the dead. Authentic historical Jewish belief - where such is present
- has little relevance to this, since it is not part of contemporary
Western occultism, except among a minority, it has no bearing on any
likely source of folk religion in the present day either.
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